Issue d'une carrière réussie dans le mannequinat et le journalisme indépendant, Sandra Howard s'est imposée comme une romancière captivante. Son œuvre explore les complexités des relations humaines et la vie intérieure de ses personnages. Howard possède une capacité remarquable à créer des scénarios réalistes et à évoquer des émotions profondes, offrant aux lecteurs des récits à la fois engageants et perspicaces. Ses romans abordent des thèmes tels que la loyauté, la fidélité et la quête d'identité.
The emotional bond between Taraji and her grandmother, Queenie, is centered around their shared love for singing. When the joyful music abruptly ceases and visits come to an end, Taraji is left to navigate her feelings of loss and solitude. The story explores themes of love, grief, and the resilience of memory as Taraji seeks to cope with the absence of her beloved grandmother and the cherished moments they shared through song.
A scintillating roman a clef, set in swinging '60s London and present day, recalling a life of glamour and style and haute couture
Kate Nichols had been married just two years when her art dealer husband crashed his plane and died. A year on, still overwhelmed by grief, she meets and falls in love with documentary film-maker, Richard Marshall. Richard is a divorced father of two and still very involved with his bi-polar ex-wife, but despite these difficulties, Kate's feelings for him are intense and her wounds begin to heal. Meanwhile, as her father battles with the final stages of terminal cancer, Kate's divorced mother has fallen in love with another man, Ben Townsend. Kate warms to Ben, but she is suspicious about his business activities. When Kate eventually discovers the truth, she is devastated to learn that Ben and her mother will have to flee the country for their own safety. Unable to share this secret with Richard, and increasingly insecure about Richard's commitment to her, Kate must live with the burden of knowing that she stands to lose both her father and her mother.
How do you deal with the end of a marriage when you are the partner who is left in the lurch? This is what happens to Ursula but, beyond the heartbreak, she must deal with the break up of the relationship being played out endlessly in the tabloids. Ursula's story opens on the day of her ex-husband William's wedding. The press are on the phone to her at six in the morning, asking her to share her innermost feelings. 'No comment', is all she can manage. Her three children, particularly the two youngest, cannot restrain their excitement. After all, it isn't every day that their father marries a government minister and the Prime Minister and half the Cabinet are invited. But Ursula, herself embarked on a shaky new affair with a local man, sees how hard their daughter Jessie has taken the shake-up. Her father's secret favourite, she has put up walls, closed doors. But are these defences strong enough to protect a ten-year-old child?
What would you do if the love of your life, who you thought had long gone, comes back, during which time you have married and become a mother?
In March 1940 Laura boards a troopship and travels through the torpedoed waters of the Mediterranean to chase after Harry whom she has fallen in love with.